Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 15:29:08 +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-01-09, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to
> >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf
> >> immediately upon encountering latex commands.
> >
> > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step" process?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David.
> >
> >
>
> Like the other, more knowledgeable guy said.
There are quite a few in this thread. Clue us in?
> pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a text file without complaint
> if you put '\end' on a newline at the end of the text file (I wouldn't
> recommend such a bare-bones approach, though, in my extremely limited
> experience, for formatting reasons). Or you can just type '\end' in the
> little interactive mode that comes up in the terminal when errors or
> omissions are encountered.
My pdftex complained madly about this and eventually threw the towel in.
> All roads lead to Rome, I reckon.
You always learn something new on this list. I thought it was Grimsby.
--
Brian.
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